Sprightly EPISODES: BARIKATA Ramen Bar

Do noodles end their prayers with "RAMEN"?

BARIKATA at I.T Park Lahug

BARIKATA means "very hard" in English. This is use to state that you want your ramen noodles to be "very hard" in solidity, therefore the noodle was only boiled under a number of seconds to achieve the correct hardness. Hence, the name of the restaurant was taken from.

RAMEN 101:

Ramen is a noodle in soup dish which was originally made in China into Japan when the country open its border to Meiji Restoration. The word "Ra" means pulled (into) while "Men" means noodles. That's how the noodles were made in the old days, a single lump of dough was manually stretched and folded a dozens of times till it formed a bunch of thin noodles.

Ramen has mainly four types according to the broths being used; tonkotsu (pork bone), shoyu (soy sauce), shio (salt) and miso (fermented bean paste). Barikata is on tonkotsu based ramen.

Barikata serves three main tonkotsu ramen dishes.

Shiro Tonkotsu - white tonkotsu ramen (shiro means white in English)

My bowl of Shiro Tonkotsu.

Aka Tonkotsu - red tonkotsu ramen (aka means red or crimson in English)

Kuro Tonkotsu - black tonkotsu ramen (kuro 黒 means black in English)

You can easily distinguish ones order because there bowl matches to the flavor of the ramen. (I think this is a great idea. So cute. . .KAWAII!!!)

No copying RICH!!! :P

Barikata's ramen really exceeds my expectations. I really like noodles and their ramen beats the other noodles I've tried. Since, they just opened yesterday (Saturday, August 5) we were the first to taste these sumptuous dishes and experienced their warm welcome and greetings. Their serving was a bit many though that's why I wasn't able to finish the soup but the noodles was great, not too soggy and too hard that you feel it's under cooked. They really live up to their name BARIKATA. On the other hand, you can see that the price of the ramen is above the average and they have 12% VAT on it. Nevertheless, I had a good time plus a good meal yesterday so every cent I spent was worth it.

Many ways to eat your ramen. \(^0^)/

Have a big and long slurp of noodles.

(Pardon the way I eat, I was late and sooooo hungry at that time. (^_^)

You can begin with the soup. (SLURP . . . SLURP)

HAHAHAHA YE━━━d(≧∀≦)b━━━S!!!

You can't help but ROAR. (grrrr..r.r.r.r.)

(I'm hungry!! When are we going to eat?)

And the classic AHHH and UHMM. (LOL)

This gathering was to commemorate our colleague for her last day of working with us. Another special place that sheltered our bonding moments together. A place to cherish and to look after as we pass by the stony pavement of IT Park.